Lacing



E. I. COOMBS.

, LACING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-12,1920.

1 3 5 362 Patented July 26, 1921.

Edgar! 6 Wm.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR I. coomns, or rnovmnncn, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF 'ro wanna a. msrnnnnooxs, or raovrnmvon, anozon ISLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 26', 1921.

Application filed January 12, 1920. Serial No. 350,909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR I. Coon/ms, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacings, of which the following is a s ecification.

his invention relates to lacings which may be applied to shoes, corsets or other artlcles; and the object of this invention is to provide such a lacing with a tip or an chor member for securing one end thereof in the article to be laced, thereby permitting the lacin to be applied in a single strand art, t e single, upper end being secured wit out the usual bowknot whereby an article laced with my improved lacing presents lacing whereby this end is held and prevented from being drawn through the eyelets of a shoe or article.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the ap ended claims.

11 the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1- is a perspective view showing a portion of a shoe with my improved form of lacing as applied thereto.

Fi 2- is a detail illustrating the anchor memfier as applied to one end of a lacing.

Fig. 3- is an enlarged view partly in section, showing the anchor member as positioned in an eyelet of the shoe, and the end of the lacing as being secured in the anchor.

Fig. 4- is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the anchor member.

F i 5- is a plan view of the anchor mem er.

Referring to the drawing, 10 dcai tcs the anchor tip or member which is a apted to be secured to one end of a lacing 11. This tip or anchor may be made in any suitable form but I referably form the same from sheet stock having a disk shaped base portion 12 from the center of which is drawn up a tubular neck portion 13, the outer or free end 14 of this neck portion being offset at an angle to the plane of the axis of the base portion of the neck so as to look in the direction of the lead of the lacing when the latter is applied to a shoe or member to be laced.

In-securing the lacing inthe neck portion of the anchor member I thread the end of the lac ng therein and then by swaging or otherwlse acting upon this neck portion I contract the same about the lacing, sulficlently to pinch or bind the lacing so that it is permanently secured therein.

TlllS swaging or contracting action on the tubular neck portion serves to harden the stock so that it will permanently remain in its set position firmly gripping the stock of the lacing.

I also offset or bend the free end 14 of this tubular portion, which offset serves to agam more firmly secure the lacing therein as it will be seen that the pull of the lacing is now at substantially a right angle to the plane of the axis at the base of the neck portion.

This anchor member, it will be noted, is formed entirely separate from the shoe or member to which the lacing is to be applied.

In applying the lacing with its anchor to a shoe or other member to be laced the free end 15 of the lacing is passed from the under side outwardly'through the eyelet 16 in the shoe, which leaves the base or disk portion 12 of the eyelet on the under or inner side thereof, which base portion is so fiat and thin that it does not in any way interfere With the wearing of the shoe. The neck portion of the anchor member is drawn up through the eyelet and the lacing is then passed over and over through the different eyelets, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

In order to fasten the lacing in the shoe I preferably pass the same twice through the upper eyelets 17 and 18, which causes the lacin to be bound and securely held therein, t e free end 15 of the lacing being then tucked on the inner side of the shoe, which style of lacing is very neat and attractive in appearance.

By the use of my improved ti or anchor member on a lacing a portion 0 the length of the lacing is saved and the lacing of the shoe is rendered very neat and attractive in appearance.

he foregoing description is directed solel toward the construction illustrated, but I desire it to be understood that I reserve the privilege of resortin to all the mechanical changes to which t e device is susceptible, the invention being defined and limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A lacing having a tip member formed of a head member provided with a central tubular neck portion in which latter the end of the lacing is bound, the said'neck being adapted to be inserted in an eyelet and having its end extending at an angle tothe planeof the axis at the base of sa d neck.

2. A lacing comprising a tubular shank,

having an enlarged and substantially flat head, said shank being adapted to be inserted in an eyelet and the head thereof to engage the edge of the eyelet to maintain the shank in position, said shank being curved to have its free end extend substantially at right angles to the axis of said head and around tie other side of the eyelet opposite said head, a flexible lacing having one end suitably secured in said tubular member.

In testimony whereof I afiix m si nature.

EDGAR I. C 60 S. 

